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The world’s top chess federation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its official events for females until an assessment of gender change is made by its officials.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Except because of some factors, that's exactly the case. There have been around 2000 grandmasters ever. Only around 40 are women. Don't ask me why, I'm not touching the topic with a 10 meter pole.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Probably because there have been a lot more make chess players in general historically. It's still a long way from an even split today and was probably even more imbalanced.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the exact same reason as the one behind the gender disparity in STEM fields

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

No it isn't. Genius distribution is different between men and women but STEM isn't populated solely, or even significantly, by geniuses

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There have been many studies done on the factors that are relevant. There are near irrefutable mounds of evidence.

However, the biggest brained take on this is,

I'm not touching the topic with a 10 meter pole.